Yoca Arditi-Rocha

The CLEO Institute

Executive Director

 Yoca Arditi-Rocha is an international Sustainability Professional with over 15 years of management experience. A Biologist with a degree on Corporate Sustainability from the Institute of Global Sustainability at the University of Vermont currently finishing her Master's degree in Liberal Arts at Harvard University in Sustainability.  Yoca is an Al Gore trained Climate Change presenter, an active member of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP), a mentor for new trainees at the Climate Reality Project, and a USGBC certified LEED-Green Associate. Yoca is the new Co-Executive Director and Senior Climate Advisor at The CLEO Institute where she works with the CLEO staff to drive climate action through community engagement and education.

Before joining CLEO, she was the founder and executive director of No Planeta B, a consultancy with an advocacy core, which specializes in carbon footprint inventories, climate action planning, sustainable events, climate literacy and corporate environmental capacity training in South Florida & the Latin American region. Yoca also lead an educational engagement non-profit initiative called U CLIMATICA: a free 3-day climate change training event that empowered & mentored youth to become climate leaders.  She has participated in the past two United Nations climate negotiation talks, COP20 in Lima & COP21 in Paris, and serves as the sustainability advisor for several schools, colleges and organizations in the region.

Yoca is passionate about solving the climate crisis and is considered an influencer in this field frequently invited as a keynote speaker to a variety of forums from a Latin American Doctors Conference in Argentina, to PTA meetings, to TV networks like Telemundo and others.